Molly Perkins

Boxing Academy: Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE)

I wasn’t great at team sports and would lose my temper so my dad suggested I try kickboxing. I took up traditional boxing when I was nine to work on my punching. I enjoyed it so much I dropped kickboxing.

I fell in love with boxing, I didn’t want to do anything else. I didn’t want to kick any more – I wanted to hit people. But I don’t like blood. I am a proper girly girl.

My training at UCB has really helped me progress. I won the Amateur Boxing Association of England junior title at 16 and won the youth title in 2015. I also went to the European Championships in Hungary.

I will compete at senior elite level in 2016 and hope to get to the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2018 and the 2020 Olympics.

"My training at UCB has really helped me progress. I won the Amateur Boxing Association of England junior title at 16 and won the youth title in 2015. I also went to the European Championships in Hungary."